hcommons.org/members/fabr... I have joined #KnowledgeCommons as a new space to share research and ideas, and meet colleagues I hope it works good #histsci #exchange #sociallife

#Bluehistorians #Skystorians Happy to share this event, part of #ConEnvHist project on the environment♻️and botany🌿 In Milan, Oct13 with some great colleagues on practices and theories of knowledge. Attendance is free @sergiooe.bsky.social #environmentalstudies #environment #histsci #agriculture

Once delusions of human superiority and separateness are broken down, we can no longer stand by and watch Nature’s destruction. Nature is not a means to human ends but an interdependent system whose well-being ultimately determines our own.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... a nice and attentive report of the symposium organized in Pisa for the 500th anniversary of #AndreaCesalpino #ortobotanico #Pisa by Lorenzo Peruzzi and his team #histbotany #histsci #philsci #botany #renaissancestudies

I forgot to mention that Renaissance Studies at IU, Bloomington will sponsor the panel - which will thereby be accepted by RSA committee. #RSA26 #RSA #RenaissanceStudies #Wine

The next #ForumDescartes will be in Torino - January 21-23, 2026 - the CFP is available (submission by September 15) Share and apply if you are working on #Descartes #Cartesianism #17thcentury #histphilo #histsci The lineup of organizers is important! #Phdstudents #graduatestudents #philosophers

Vino🍷🍇: Agriculture, Medicine, Symbolism and Conviviality. For a Natural History of Wine in the Renaissance 🍾 My cfp for a panel at #RSA26 #RsaSanFrancisco #RSA2026 #HIstsci #histmed #histagriculture #arthistory Apply if interested - send me a short abstract www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...

We are happy to share the second series of #DescartesLab here more info fbaldassarriphilo.wordpress.com/home/researc... note also the side event on October 6th.

Next season of #DescartesLab is now available⤵️ The first meeting is on Nov.11, 2025 - with Steve Nadler's book on La Forge. Then, we'll discuss Cartesian ontology, Cartesian linguistic and Descartes' politics - a broad array of topics, ranging from science to philosophy and social life #17thcentury

A less-known pharmacist is Bartolomeo Maranta - a former student of Luca Ghini - who worked with plants in Naples (in a garden of Giovan Vincenzo Pinelli) and published a fascinating Method on studying plants in 1559 --- several years before Cesalpino, but also Pena and Lobel #plantstudies #histsci

www.ortomuseobot.sma.unipi.it/en/2025/06/i... Snapshot of the recent workshop held in Pisa to celebrate 500 years of Cesalpino (1524/1525-1603) and plant systematics - with the abstracts of presentations #plantstudies #cesalpino #ortobotanico #herbarium #renaissance #renstudies #botany #histsci

In Pisa #OrtoBotanico1543 to celebrate #AndreCesalpino #500years and plant systematics #taxonomy #histsci #plantstudies #plantknowledge #botany From the Renaissance to today's science, Cesalpino is a fascinating scholar. Happy to contribute with a presentation about his life and work

Today: Seminar in Theoretical Philosophy at UniFi on #plantstudies in early modern natural philosophy - mainly, discussing 2 alternatives to Aristotelianism: plant-machines and plant-intelligence Tomorrow: 500-year celebration for Andrea #Cesalpino with a keynote #histsci #histplants #botany

Next Early Modern Lab at NTU - organized by Dana Jalobeanu - features Gideon Manning on visualizing nature with text and image #visualizingknowledge #visualizingscience #illustrations #17thcentury

📣 #bluestorians #skystorians Happy to share that on October 6th, 2025, I discuss my book on #Descartes with Dan Garber and Deb Brown - who are 2 of the major Cartesian scholars of our time - chair: Igor Agostini #17thcent #earlymodern #histphilo #individualbodies link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

📣On June 4th, I give a paper on plant studies in early modern philosophy and science, why this is an absent topic in historical studies, and why this topic is important at the time - discussing the life of nature in mechanical studies The event is part of the Theoretical Philosophy seminar at UniFI

Happy to share the news that I have won the Young Researcher Fellowship - with a 3-year research project to enlarge the focus of my MSCA and explore aspects that were not within that project The title is: Constructing the Environment: A History of Botanical Knowledge before 1800 #ConEnvHist

www.ortomuseobot.sma.unipi.it/iacs500-symp... 📣 Happy to be a keynote at the 500th anniversary of #AndreaCesalpino in Pisa -🌿I will provide some historical insights at a very nice conference on botanical systematics #histsci #plantstudies🌳 the history of plants matters in today's science🌱 Program⤵️

The coming week is rich with #Cartesian events. On Wed 14th May, Giulianno Gasparri will discuss Herbert of Cherbury's De Veritate, while on Fri 16th May, Delphine Bellis and Christoph Sander present @melissalo.bsky.social monograph on figuring #Descartes' natural philosophy posters below #histsci

Next #DescartesLab Is on @melissalo.bsky.social 's book on Descartes's picturing natural philosophy, a quite inspiring research topic. With Delphine Bellis and Christoph Sander Join us on May 16th at 5pm (Italy )/11 am (EAST) - spread the word #descartes #earlymodern #17thcentury #histphilo #images

of crystals and corns - atomic studies of generation in 17th-century natural philosophy #gassendi #plantstudies #seminarerum #atoms #corpuscles #crystals

Hot off the press and on my desk! Looking forward to reading this wonderful work edited by @fabribald.bsky.social

The Plant Initiative's @theplantinitiative.bsky.social April 2025 monthly e-newsletter contains many events, resources, and opportunities related to the human-plant connection. Access the issue at mailchi.mp/plantinitiat... or subscribe for free at plantinitiative.org

Video recording of The Vegetal Turn: A conversation with Marcello Di Paola held Jan 30, 2025. Sponsored by @theplantinitiative.bsky.social This was an online conversation with plant philosopher Marcello Di Paola about his new book on plants in the environmental humanities. youtu.be/sa5DXb1S6SM

I was reminded that the volume Vegetative Powers was published circa 4 years ago, presenting a deep discussion with the powers of plants and vegetation in a wide-array of philosophers #vegpowers #vegetation #manipulatingflora #plantstudies link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Congratulations to the editor of & contributors to Epistemic Practices & Plant Classification in Pre-Modern Botanical Knowledge: An Interdisciplinary Treatment Edited by @fabribald.bsky.social www.aup.nl/en/book/9789... It appears in the @amsterdamupress.bsky social series Scientiae Studies.

#wine #philowine #histwine #medicinewine Lately, I have been working a bit on the history of wine in Renaissance #plantstudies and medicine, especially intersecting philosophy and agronomers. If anyone wants to chat on this field, I'd be happy to! #renaissancefood #renaissancedrink

A few tips for NEH grantees: 1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP. 2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,

Next week, I discuss with friends and colleagues about Andrea Bacci, an Italian physician from Le Marche whom became professor of botany in Rome in 1570, and wrote an interesting text on wine (and its quality variations according to the environment) #AndreaBacci #histsci #histenvironmnet #botany

It's today! The challenges of life through the lenses of the mechanization of vegetation in early modern philosophy! Attendance is free! Follow the link below

Thank you to @fabribald.bsky.social for saying hi! His book ‘Epistemic Practices and Plant Classification in Premodern European Botanical Knowledge’ uncovers the diverse approach to plants in the 17th century that paved the way for a definition of botany as a discipline. Find it on our #RSA stand 🍃

#RSA25 #RSABoston25 Renaissance Society annual meeting in Boston! #renaissancestudies #history #sixteenthcentury

Hot off the press, my latest volume on Epistemic Practices and Knowledge of Plants in Pre-modern European studies #histsci #histplants #histbotany #17thcentury #earlymodern @amsterdamupress.bsky.social #scientiaestudies Just in time to bring copies to #rsa25 #rsaBoston www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

#RSA25 #RSABoston25 Looking forward to RSA Annual meeting, as I discuss some of my latest research on the interactions between plants and the underground, as a space of plant life and behaviour, experimental study of plant variation, and metaphor for racial differentiation and colonial violence

*Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht. www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens

Wrapping it! See you on Wednesday!

In the #16th-cent, #botany was neither a science nor a fully-fledged discipline. While a clear epistemology was not entirely defined, an intersection of theory and experience grounded this discipline. In this talk, I explore the interactions between #peasants and #philosophers #plantstudies #histsci

Plant enthusiasts: Join us on March 5 for a talk by @fabribald.bsky.social 🌿

On March 25, I discuss 🌳Plants without Life and some other attempts to mechanize vegetation🌱at @concordiau.bsky.social in Montreal (Ca) #histsci #histphil #17thcentury #plantstudies #vegetation #descartes Looking for the snow! Attendance is free! More info here⤵️ www.concordia.ca/cuevents/art...

on the opuntia-ficus in the 17th-century experimentation with plants #opuntia #manipulatingflora #plantstudies #earlymodern

Anvari Entertains on a Tree-top Platform, Folio 109b from a manuscript of the Divan of Anwary (1588) - on the role of plants and knowledge

a nice event on February 21st (online at 5pm - Italy time), organized by Anatole Tchikine and Florike Egmond this is a new project,🌻Early Modern Botanical Knowledge Production🌱 in this event, Dr. Sabrina Minuzzi discusses "Materia medica between past and future" #Earlymodernbotanicalknowledge

Don't miss the WIP seminar, Thursday, Feb.13, 6pm (Italy time) - online attendance is possible. I'll discuss the knowledge of farmers #Dottrinadecontadini #soil #habitat #plantstudies #plantphilosophy #environment #ITatti

Clima in the Italian Renaissance! #climate #environmentalRenaissance #environmentalstudies #weather #sources

In her upcoming book, "Unmaking Botany," Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez traces a history of botany in the Philippines during the last decades of Spanish rule and the first decades of US colonization. Read the intro for free our website now! #PostcolonialStudies #AsianStudies https://buff.ly/4hCKdD7

Just published: a very generous review of the volume I edited,🍀 Plants in 16th and 17th century🌿, written by Jose-Pardo Tomas on Nuncius @manipulatingflora.bsky.social @degruyterbrill.bsky.social I am flattered!!! Hope you like it brill.com/view/journal...

Marcello Di Paolo discussing his recent research Vegetal Turn - an important addition to our understanding of the relationship between plants, nature and societies #plantinitiative #vegetalturn #plantstudies #plantethics www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa5D...

In the Canto XXV of the Purgatorio, Dante inserts a fascinating analogy between fetuses and plants, following the traditional claim that fetuses live the life of plants - which remained a common claim up to the 17th century. It's breathtaking #plantlife #plantstudies #plantfetus #vegetation

Happy to have in my hands this precious publication edited by @charles-wellington.bsky.social and Anik Waldow to honour Stephen Gaukroger. #histphilo #histsci #17thcentury #failures #descartes #bacon I have contributed with fleshing out 4 dilemmas in Descartes's physics!